Re: [LAU] pretty much frustrated about those rt-kernels!

Reuben Martin wrote:
> Back on Friday 04 July 2008, Mark Knecht was like:
>
>> The question is whether rt-sources, as built from portage using the
>> overlay, is based on the vanilla kernel or based on gentoo-sources. I
>> believe it's built on the vanilla kernel or else we'd be picking which
>> version of the Gentoo kernel we want to add the patch set to. That's
>> not what the pro-audio overlay does. It's just patching
>> vanilla-sources. (If I'm wrong about this let me know but that's the
>> way it started.)
>>
>>
>
> You can apply the rt patchset against both the vanilla or gentoo-sources.
> There is very little difference between the gentoo-sources and the vanilla
> kernel. The only thing added to gentoo-sources are patches to fix things on
> specific architectures (usually solaris) and a couple small insignificant
> drivers. That's it.
>
> I personally apply the rt patch set against the gentoo sources. Have for quite
> a while. No problems. (You will get two errors when applying the patchset.
> Both are trivial crap that doesn't matter. One for a set of brackets which
> aren't needed anyway where the framebuffer driver is added on, and another
> when it tries to change the name of the kernel which you can change yourself
> in the config menu if you want.)
>
> -Reuben
>
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I've read on the debian irc channel that it is not necessary to do a
rt-patch with the newest kernels (.25.10), just set in menu config:

processor type and features >> preemtible kernel (low -latency desktop)

and Timer frequentie to 1000 Hz.

Can anyone confirm this?

 
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Received on Sat Jul 5 20:15:02 2008